Monica Lewinsky

About Monica Lewinsky

Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is an American woman with whom then United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having had an "inappropriate relationship" while Lewinsky worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996. The tawdry nature of the affair and its resulting repercussions in the impeachment of Bill Clinton and the surrounding scandals of 1997-99 became known as the Lewinsky scandal, "Monicagate" and "Zippergate." The scandal overwhelmed media coverage of other public policy matters and raised questions about Clinton's judgment and character among the public.[10]

Monica Lewinsky was born in San Francisco, California, and grew up in Southern California on the west side of Los Angeles and in Beverly Hills. She is of Russian Jewish descent. Her father is Dr. Bernhard Lewinsky, an oncologist; her mother, Marcia Lewis, is an author.[11] Her parents are divorced. For her primary education she attended the John Thomas Dye School in Bel-Air.[12] She later attended Beverly Hills High School, but then left and graduated from Pacific Hills School, formerly known as Bel Air Prep, as salutatorian.

She graduated with a psychology degree from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon in 1994. Lewinsky moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked at the White House as an intern starting in July 1994, performing job duties there in November 1994.